The Rolls-Royce SRH returns home to help launch fundraising initiative

Named after the St. Richard's Hospital in Chichester, the Rolls-Royce SRH returned to the home of Rolls-Royce for one night to help launch the Love Your Hospital 'First Fifty Club'. A new corporate fundraising initiative, the 'First Fifty Club' encourages businesses from across West Sussex, U.K., to get their entrepreneurial thinking caps on and raise significant funds for local hospitals.

Love Your Hospital is the dedicated charity for the three hospitals that make up Western Sussex Hospitals National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust: St. Richard's Hospital in Chichester, Worthing Hospital and Southlands Hospital in Shoreham. The charity provides vital funds to support hospital projects beyond core NHS funding, including providing state-of-the-art medical equipment, improving treatment facilities for patients, supporting staff development and enhancing the hospital environment for all.

The Rolls-Royce SRH was hand-crafted for the St Richard's Hospital Paediatric Day Surgery Unit in the marque's home town of Chichester, West Sussex. The 'smallest Rolls-Royce' allows children awaiting surgery to drive themselves to the operating theatre, through the Paediatric Unit corridors which are lined with 'traffic signs'. The experience of 'self-drive to theatre' aims to reduce child patient stress. Since it's unveiling in 2017, more than 1300 children have driven the Rolls‑Royce SRH to the operating theatre.